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Someone Has to Say It – The Car in Car Chase With Bullitt is Better

Thursday, 25 July 2024, 17:47 BFH Uncategorized 51

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  5. Someone Has to Say It – The Car Chasing Bullitt is Better

    @BFH — You’re absolutely right. But so what? It’s my favorite movie car chase of all time. Of course, it’s EVERYBODY’S favorite movie car chase of all time. (OK, there are some French Connection fans and I’ll not argue with them.)

    Thank you Bill Hickman (Charger driver) and Steve McQueen and Bud Ekins (Mustang drivers). There is a really top-notch article about the movie and its chase (12 minutes of chase took two weeks to film) in Motor Trend. Lots of cool details in there.

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  6. 70 WHITE DODGE CHALLENGER. The Kowalski special.

    Lots of good car chase movies out there. Personally I think Bullet was the all time best because of the way it was shot. That Ford as a POS. Wheel hop, no posi traction action. MOPAR rules.

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  10. I let our ’68 Mustang convertible watch the chase video every once in a while just so she can remember what her relatives were like. She gets kind of weepy eyed and longs for the good old days.

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  12. They pass the same beetle over and over again.

    I love seeing the tire marks on the pavement where they fucked up and wrecked, or were doing tests.

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  13. Brother-in-law had a ’69 Charger that he parked on the street down the block. The next day, it was up on blocks missing 4 wheels. I disliked the guy and thought it was funny. He didn’t like me either. Today, he’s dead and I’m not. 🤣

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  18. “The Camaro in Aloha Bobby and Rose, hands down”

    That cars still floating around. The story I heard behind it is the film maker contacted some guy that had a race team with a 68. GT stuff. Anyway he had the guy build up that car for the movie. 355 stroker I believe. Some guy in SoCal owns it and occasionally takes it to the local car shows.

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  26. And then there’s Duel where Dennis Weaver is chased by a maniacal truck driver all over Southern California. I took a girlfriend to see a double feature of The French Connection and Vanishing Point at the drive-in movie theater in the Spring of 1972. Those were also both great car movies. She must’ve liked me because she went out with me again that Summer before I joined the Navy after watching that double feature and especially with the nudity in Vanishing Point and all the swearing in The French Connection,

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  27. Dukes of Hazzard was filmed the first season in Covington and Conyers, Georgia. During that first season both cities had to pressure wash the streets after every episode to get the tire marks off the streets. I know the guy who acquired the Chargers for the show. Not all of them he bought made it to the show. He has a factory orange 69 Hemi Charger 500 sitting in his garage. It is the last one of the 5 he bought for himself.

    The car chase in Bullitt is the best car chase out there.

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  38. Doc

    That was when they introduced the D port heads. Nobody could hang with them. I was a young street racer then and by hook and crook got a pair for my 340. W2 heads I BELIEVE. I just called them twist and shout. 9K rpm. 5.13s at the track.

  43. The Seven Ups car chase is more interesting to me because I drove on those roads for years. When you know the roads you really get a hoot about how Hollywood edits willy nilly. They are driving north, and suddenly they are south of where they just were.

    My favorite “I know this place” scenes are in a movie called Sooner or Later, with Rex Smith. It was filmed in Yonkers, and at the park I worked in. They are doing a two-shot conversation scene and the people talking are in two different parts of the park. In another scene he is going to see a music teacher. He is walking up a hill and turns around the corner, and suddenly he is on South Broadway, which does not connect to the street he was just on.

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  46. BFH, it’s like watching car chase movies in DC. Or any old movie in DC.

    I know where all of those coin-phones were.

    And I know…those streets aren’t contiguous.

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